Scoutmaster Musings

MacGyver Patch

Last September, Boys Life ran a MacGyver Challenge sweepstakes. Today, I received this photo of the patch from a participant in the contest.

Doing a bit of research on the net, it looks like 1,158 people entered so all of them should have gotten a patch, 10 should have received a swag bag of stuff, and 1 got a trip to the MacGyver set in Atlanta and a pizza party. A scout from Texas Troop 565 won the big prize - Read More (thanks for the heads up, thrifty).

Three things I think are interesting:

Many online contests like this are easy to enter and often have fewer participants than you would think. I won a nice pair of Keen boots online.

If only 1,158 of these were given out, I wonder if any scouting memorabilia collectors would be interested in them?

I could not find a picture of this patch searching online - so, this might be the first and only MacGyver Challenge Scout Edition patch on the entire internet! :-)

Scouts looking for another patch to collect? Read a book and send a short report to Boys Life to enter their reading contest. You will at least get a Pedro patch, and maybe a lot more.

Hopefully you can help me. My son, Ryne Sinn from Troop 329 entered the Macgyver challenge and even received a confirmation email that he had won. I send in the required form because he was only 12 years old. He still has not received his patch. I have tried emailing the contest a couple of times and have gotten no response. Is there any thing you can to to help?

Mar 15, 2017 - Scouter Paul

@Trent - Bummer, but there's nothing I can do. It may just be
that the patches are being distributed now and yours will show
up soon.The sweepstakes was a joint marketing thing between CBS
and BSA according to scoutingworks.com/case-
studies/cbs/You could leave a comment on
scoutingwire.org/macgyver-scout-style-scout-win-big/ or
blog.scoutingmagazine.org/2016/09/22/scouts-can-win-big-
in-macgyver-challenge-scout-edition-sweepstakes/ but their links
to boyslife.org are all outdated and broken. I wonder if anyone
else has received, or NOT received, a patch???

Mar 17, 2017 - Mom in GA

My Scout received his this week in the mail.

Mar 17, 2017 - Maria

Boy Scout Trail: Thank you for showing us what the patch looks like - it's very nice.

Trent:After reading the blog today, I realized the same thing. I had returned the winner's form on 12/2/16, but my son had not received the patch.

I just sent an email to both

bianca.lentini@scouting.orgboyslifecontest@scouting.org

to let them know that the patch has not yet arrived.

Thank you, Mom in GA for letting us know that your son received his this week.

Let's hope they're all on their way.

Apr 21, 2017 - thrifty

My scout entered the contest, got the confirmation, we sent back the form and the patch has still not arrived as of Apr 21. I had assumed they never received the email response that I sent to both addresses. Maybe the patches were on back order or something. Our last name is near the end of the alphabet so maybe it will show up late. thx for the info.

Apr 27, 2017 - thrifty

I feel silly to keep posting but maybe it will help someone. My scout's patch arrived 2 days after posting the Apr. 21st comment.